POLL — when my new book Nontoxic Masculinity: A Celebration of Good Men launches on Aug 1, I get to add a teaser chapter to the listing. The book is a collection of stories about men (real & myth) who represent the 12 archetypes of masculinity and what we can learn from them. My question to you is: which chapter should I post as a teaser?

1. The Warrior

2. The Magician

3. The King

4. The Lover

5. The Joker

6. The Hero

7. The Caregiver

8. The Sage

9. The Explorer

10. The Innocent

11. The Rebel

12. The Creator

I've been building our home freedom server, Bitarr with Claude over the last week or so. Here's what Claude has to say about it:

🏴‍☠Introducing Bitarr: A Complete Self-Hosted Freedom Stack

Just finished building an epic home server setup that combines Bitcoin sovereignty with media freedom:

What's in Bitarr:

- ⚡ Full Bitcoin node + Lightning (LND) + LNBits for family banking

- 🎬 Jellyfin + full *arr automation stack (Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr)

- 🤖 Local AI with Ollama + Open WebUI (no cloud dependency)

- 📺 HDMI recovery system that auto-fixes display issues after power cuts

- 🔒 Everything behind Nginx Proxy Manager with proper SSL

- 📊 Comprehensive monitoring and testing for all services

Cool features:

- Smart plug integration for device control

- Network optimizations achieving 900+ Mbps on gigabit

- Modular Docker stacks that can run independently

- Automated backups and service recovery

- Family-friendly web interfaces for everything

All config is on GitHub ready to be made open.

Built with help from Claude - took a complex multi-stack setup and made it maintainable. Now my family can request movies through Jellyseerr and pay each other with Lightning, all running on our own hardware!

#selfhosted #bitcoin #lightning #homelab #arr #bitarr

⚡️❤️📏 NEW - Tinder is set to test a new feature that filters profiles by height.

Key takeaways from the 2025 conference:

1. Stablecoins are the future.

2. Politicians got your back and deserve your vote.

3. Blockchain is the revolution.

4. Wall Street deserves your bitcoin and your trust.

5. Crypto is incredible technology.

6. Everything will be tokenized.

7. Bitcoin is okay.

8. Las Vegas is the perfect location for this conference… so we’re doing it again next year!

I think that all but few have the cognitive flexibility to realize that there must have been something in that Kool-Aid they drank…. I see no other reason for this concept being out of their grasp. And people in my circle have doctoral level degrees, self made millionaires, fortune 100 C Suite, etc. None are immune…

I have used the “has it become more expensive or tricky to make a loaf of bread? A shovel? Etc. when I pose it like that, I have sometimes seen a flicker behind their eyes, but so often it is doused by the Kool-Aid.

My elementary school aged son is being brought up, Kool-Aid free, and we have thousands of kids in LATAM that are being brought up in this truth. I pray that it changes this dynamic!

The free market is a competition in service of you while anything else ends in a competition to prey on you.

And one of the reasons why #bitcoin is so hard to understand is that it is the first global free market that has ever existed.

anyone who forces KYC on nostriches is not genuine to me

Yep. My wife basically hates the entire concept of making love. She wants to be fucked like a whole and trash talked in the bedroom and treated like a princess with respect everywhere else.

I am OK with this. 😀

What Dr Mary is saying isn’t a “conspiracy theory” but just facts. That said to each his own, those that want to poison their kids in the name of science are free to do so.

Who’s behind the curtain now?

Why do you call that dumb? It seems to me like he's preparing quite well. Makes me wonder if he's really trying a rugpull. He's got reach, marketing and this seems like a pretty smart move for him. 😆

The scamcoin component of the strategic reserve is a self-correcting problem. These tokens trend toward zero in Bitcoin terms. Thus, the reserve will eventually be 100% BTC.